Travel Tips

As a mother-to-be and travel writer, I’m determined to continue travelling extensively through pregnancy and after. Whether it’s an unrealistic dream, or a skill that can be mastered, I’ll be finding out pretty quickly after our son is born. What is giving me hope is finding out about hotels that go over and above to make you and your kids [...]

I can not live without my iphone when traveling. That doesn’t mean I run up an expensive phone bill, instead, as soon as I land in a new country I pick up a local sim and put my home sim card in my extra phone. It’s amazing how cheap it can be to buy prepaid sim cards with data especially [...]

If you book well in advance and catch the flight sales, it can be incredibly cheap to travel around Asia by air thanks to local budget airlines. Here’s our list of budget airlines for travel around Asia and Australia. Scoot The newest budget airlines owned by Singapore airlines launched recently with flights from Singapore to the Gold Coast and Sydney [...]

Online check-ins and self check-in machines might have been around for a while, but not a lot of people actually use the system, usually because they don’t know how. Having flown on 4 Air Asia flights in the past 1 1/2 weeks, the self check-in system saved us a lot of time. To help you get to your departure gate [...]

A vacation to one of the many beaches in Southeast Asia will of course require some of the obvious items like: swimwear, flip flops, and the necessities for any beach vacation. But here is a list of some of things you might not have thought about. Medicine for an upset stomach Getting sick from contaminated food while vacationing in Southeast [...]

Having traveled on a lot of different airlines over the past few years and always flown coach I have experienced every thing from ripped seats, muddy disgusting bathrooms to the best mashed potatoes I have ever had and in-flight entertainment so good I forced myself to stay awake the whole 7 hour flight. Here’s my take on a few of [...]